Category: 7. Science

The force we experience most intimately remains the most mysterious. Physicists understand how vast migrations of particles called photons light up our homes, and how swarms of “gluon” particles hold together the cores of our atoms. But…

In order to mark the spiral hairspring’s 350th anniversary and celebrate its inventor Christiaan Huygens (1629 – 1695), Japanese watch retailer Shellman presents a two-week exhibition event in Tokyo, The Origins of Time = Astronomy.

Opening…

New images from the Event Horizon Telescope show that the polarization pattern around M87* – the first black hole ever photographed – has changed, flipping direction over just four years.

The result, captured by a planet-scale network of radio…

Researchers have developed a new computational method to interpret complex single-cell data. The method,…

Scientists have long been interested in the caves of Mars — not just because they could provide a home for future human explorers, but also because they just might harbor evidence of life on the Red Planet, much like how caves on Earth are…

The Gulf of Suez, which partially divides Africa and Asia, may still be widening, researchers have discovered.

Beginning about 28 million years ago, the Arabian tectonic plate pulled away from the African plate, opening up today’s Gulf of Suez….